Challenge: 404 for 2024

The 404 challenge in modern minecraft! Enjoy the nostalgia of beta 1.7.3 without downgrading to a previous version of minecraft.

The rules:

1. You and followers have until night fall to gather supplies. Spend your time wisely! Once night hits all of you MUST venture into the hole, never to return to the surface again!

2. You can gather any resource you find top side, but venturing into any other caves (for iron mostly) is not allowed. Sunlit caves are allowed.

3. You and your followers must not break ground on the 404 gravel until you are ready to enter the cave. You are intended to be finding resources for the first night, digging the gravel, and discovering the cave. Once you break ground on the gravel, you must enter the cave.

4. Once you enter the cave, you must descend all the way to the bottom! The waterfall will sweep you into the deepest parts of the cave.

5. No torches! You were drenched by the waterfall during the collapse, rendering your wood useless for torches. Real men use lava for light anyway!

  5a. Lanterns cost a diamond. Up to you if you want to allow them or not!

6. Survive and thrive. Don't simply build a wall around yourself. Explore, build, progress and help each other!

7. Only mine ores that are visible. If you see an ore, you can mine it and the blocks around it to see if you got all of it.

8. The world will start in peaceful. CHANGE IT TO NORMAL OR HARD

9. 1 life. If you die the challenge is over. Start a new 404 world if you want to try again.

Good luck!

Want a more authentic experience? Use the Nostalgic Tweaks mod to make the game actually behave like it was beta 1.7.3! Highly suggested!